Improvement in farm-fence



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WlLLlAM JASPER, OF QGLUMBIA,.OHIO. Letters Patent No. 86,924, dated February 16, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN FARM-FENCE.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To eli/whom. it may concern y Be it known that I, WILLIAM JASPER, of Columbia, in the county of Lorain, and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Farn1- Fence; end I do hereby declare that the following is a full and complete/description of the saine, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, in Which- Figure lis a side view of the fence.

Figure 2, an end View.

Figure 3, a' detached section.

Like letters of reference refer to like parts in the different views. v

The nature of this invention relates to a farm-fence, so constructed that the rails or boards thereof are se;

cured to the posts thereof by gains and wedges, thereby dispensing with the use of nails, 8m.

1n iig. l, A represents the posts, which are nailed toor otherwise secured to the sills B.

In said posts are cut holes, more or less in number, according to the number of rails C to be used, and in which they are inserted, as shown in the drawing, fig. 2.

In each end of the boards is cut a notch,'or gain, G, iig. 3, whereby the rail is secured to the postas follows: l

The end of the rail is inserted in the matrix, with the notch downward, so that the said notch will em-f brace the lower edge of the hole. This being done, the

vopposite end is received by a post, in the same way,

thus completing one panel of the fence.'

The second panel is put up by inserting the ends of Ithe rails in the same holesvor xnortises, alongside of those aibresaid, in which they are then keyed by the wedges D being driven in upon the upper edges of the two rails, as shown in fig. 1, thereby firmly securing the rails tothe post.

It will be observed that the Wedges are vdriven in on each side of the post alternately, thereby adding greatly to the strength of the lock or joint of each'panel. v

A fence, thus constructed, is simple, durable, and very convenient, as one panel can be-easily taken down for a passage-way, without disturbing those on either side.

What I claim as my improvement, aud desire to se'- cure by Letters Patent, is

The herein-describedfence, when constructed sub# stantially as herein described, consisting of thenotched rails C, Wedges D, posts A,and` si'lls,for the" purpose l set forth.`

WILLIAMl JASPER.

Witnesses J AMES M. 'Jones 

